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flipped his machine learning class in Spring 2012 using online lectures from the F2011 Stanford MOOC (an inclass "wrapper" around a MOOC - online discussion and grading with additional requirements from the onsite instructor, e.g., add'l readings, small group discussions, final project) "I now view MOOCs, and the assessment and discussion infrastructure that comes with them, as invaluable resources that I embrace and to which I add value. I, and I am guessing many others, are short steps away from full-blown customizations of individual courses and even entire curricula, drawing upon resources from around the world and contributing back to those resources."

referred to in EdFuture.net webinar by Simon Buckingham Shum, Associate Director (Technology), Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK - uses student data generated from LMS (inc Bb and Moodle) discussion forums reinterpreted into a network diagram Can visually depict - disconnected (at risk) students - key information brokers within a class - potentially high and low performing students so to plan interventions before deadline for grading - before/after snapshots to indicate impact of intervention - student reflection/benchmarking in informal self-assessment

Good resource - Prof Altbach has been in the HE discussion game for a long time (week 1 readings included a paper he did for a UNESCO conf)

This paper explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as background for exploration of these impacts. These studies explored the use of all available media among members of an academic research group and among distance learners. Asking about media use as well as about the strength of the tie between communicating pairs revealed that those more strongly tied used more media to communicate than weak ties, and that media use within groups conformed to a unidimensional scale, showing a configuration of different tiers of media use supporting social networks of different ties strengths. These results lead to a number of implications regarding media and Internet connectivity, including: how media use can be added to characteristics of social network ties; how introducing a medium can create latent tie connectivity among group members that provides the technical means for activating weak ties, and also how a change in a medium can disrupt existing weak tie networks; how the tiers of media use also suggest that certain media support different kinds of information flow; and the importance of organization-level decisions about what media to provide and promote. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for Internet effects.

3 vectors of Access, Quality and Cost - and we want to stretch the triangle to have more access, more quality and less cost = "iron triangle" if using traditional teaching methods => unhealthy link between quality and exclusivity in the popular mindset about higher ed; iron triangle can be stretched if we think of higher ed as a system and apply principles of division of labor and specialization (i.e., "unbundle" the professor)

by Eliza Anyangwe, - she opens with an image of Martin Luther King Jr. at the podium: "Martin Lurther King was a great leader. Are there any such figures in higher education?" what she doesn't address is that King relied on local "bridge" leaders to do the everyday work - and that the role of community activists was crucial to King's own success. She starts the live chat with Janine Utell and English prof from Widener Univ in PA (my personal fav expert on leadership qualities is historian Doris Kearns Goodwin); but then gathers leadership-in-the-trenches voices from men: Craig Mahoney (http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/); William H Graves (http://www.ellucian.com); Richard Hall (http://www.dmu.ac.uk); Paul Gentle (http://www.lfhe.ac.uk); Jonathan Ruddle (http://www.maxximconsulting.com); and finally, a woman's voice - last and least - Dawn Freshwater (http://www.leeds.ac.uk)

Internet redefining citizenship in 21st century - Civic Information API, e.g., Kenya Elections Hub - Sunlight Foundation programs for open govt data - MySociety collaboration among developers esp open source code